On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 08:18:33AM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO En ce milieu de nuit ?toil?e du vendredi 21 novembre 2008, vers > 03:19, Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait : > > >> Is there some way to easily retrieve all postinst scripts to check how > >> adduser is called? > > > Yup, take a look at lintian.debian.org's lab in gluck. > > > It only contains the maintainer scripts of main/i386, though. > > Thanks for the tips! > > Here is the list of package that name the user with the name of the > source package: [snip] > > The packages that use a different name but with no apparent prefix or > suffix (maybe gforge should not be in this category) : [snip] > - fsp: ftp > - vsftpd: ftp > [snip] > Some random remarks: > - there are collisions (fsp, vsftpd)
Isn't this one "special"? They do not add a package-specific user, rather they add a system user with a well-known name to provide anonymous FTP access in the traditional manner. FWIW, proftpd does this too, as, I assume, most other FTP daemons would want to. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 This sentence claims to be an Epimenides paradox, but it is lying.
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